A funny thing. I used the "Ad Nauseam" adblocker for a time. This adblocker's gimmick is that it clicks the ad while hiding it from the user to cause monetary damage to the advertiser. It also collects the ads and displays them in an "add vault". I did browse the add vault from time to time.
If it’s part of the video, and one can always skip in videos, couldn’t people skip this as well?
If they use some blocking, then ad blockers will just become skip enablers.
Having to fast forward a bit when you click on the video seems doable. But what if they put it at random spots in the vid?
So if the ad is injected directly into the stream does that mean users don't need an ad blocker and can just fast forward through the ads? I'm fine with that.
I wish....
If it's impossible to fast forward the ads, that means the timestamps of the ads have to be send to the browser, so adblock should be able to use that data.
I'm curious how this will affect creators. Now it is very obvious when YouTube is displaying an ad vs the content creator doing an ad read. If it becomes less obvious where the ad is coming from by injecting it into the stream, I wonder if they're hoping to shift some of the perception of excessive ads off of them.
This isn't really representative of how server side ad injection works, it doesn't imply anything being different about the UI when it comes to ads. Many of your favorite streaming apps use SSAI, you still get the ad indicators.
It's just that the content and the ads are both coming from the same source, so that makes it challenging to block ads by deny-listing ad serving domains, the same infrastructure is serving both.
Wow, thanks youtube that's so cool.
YouTube's also been experimenting with built-in sponsorblock for Premium subscribers, which I find weird.
Youtube trying not to show ads for 2 seconds(impossible).
Okay, so what we now need is a browser plugin that skips ahead 15 or 30 seconds, mapped to a hotkey.
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